Cox alleges Republicans run 15 million campaign fund
Gov James M Cox charges Republicans have raised a 15 million dollar campaign fund largely from selfish interests. He plans to address a Pittsburg meeting and has speaking dates in Spokane and other cities. Fellow Democrat Roosevelt cited lack of denial from Will Hays on fund size and Chicago’s 750000 quota when questioned.
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Dayton, O
James M. Cox
Pittsburg
Spokane
Wash
Chicago
Senate
San Francisco
Franklin Dpd. Roosevelt
Will Hays
Republican National Committee
Cox
Scores of Homes Threatened By Brush Fires in Manitoba
Inwood district Manitoba faces large brush fire sweeping northward threatening scores of homes. A large volunteer crew fights the flames as warm weather heightens fire danger in Western Washington and Oregon with six new fires reported yesterday.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Man
Inwood
Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Princess Alice Bound North With 13 for Juneau
KETCHIKAN Aug. 24 The steamer Princess Alice left for the North at 8 30 last night Passengers for Juneau included Mr and Mrs F A Boyle Mrs Jennie L Liebhardt Miss Ina R Liebhardt Mrs E J White Mrs J V Davis and daughter G P Flanagan Mrs M S Whittier and two children and Mr and Mrs V A Paine
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Ketchikan
Juneau
F. A. Boyle
Jennie L. Leibhardt
Ina R. Liebhardt
E. J. White
J. V. Davis
G. P. Flanagan
M. 5. Whittier
V. A. Paine
Car Shortage Improvement Seen Across Railways
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced marked improvement in the car shortage since last January when it was most acute. Railroads have achieved the reduction and further gains are expected, Washington reports.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mexican bandit Pedro Zamora holds Americans for ransom
In Mexico City Aug 24 Pedro Zamora the bandit who abducted W A Gardiner superintendent of the Peranza Mining Co and W B Johnson a British subject is pursued by government troops in Jalisco. Gardiner is held for 100000 pesos and Johnson for 50000 pesos. Earlier reports said others were released but that was denied. Friends fear captives may be killed to aid Zamora’s escape if pursued too closely.
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Mexico City
Pedro Zamora
W. A. Gardiner
Peranza Mining Company
W. B. Johnson
Jalisco
War Department
Gardiner
Johnson
Former Emperor Blamed For Piave River Reverse
Vienna reports blame for the Piave River defeat on former Emperor Carl as a wartime delinquencies commission cites three conflicting orders on November 2 1918. It notes armistice attempts were issued revoked and reissued within hours while the emperor allegedly consulted no one.
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Vienna
Piave
Carl
Dirigible Hangar Planned at San Diego Naval Base
Announcement of tentative plans to build a large dirigible hangar at the North Island naval aviation base in San Diego Bay. The hangar would stretch 1,000 feet in length and rise 100 feet high.
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San Diego
Naval Aviation Base
North Island
San Tiego Bay
German Warships Barred From U S Exhibition Tour
Washington Aug 24 Navy Department announced that deliberate damage by crews of five former German warships sent to the United States prevents their exhibition tour to American ports as planned.
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Washington
United States
Navy Department
City of Seattle Sails for Alaska Ports
SEATTLE Aug 24 The steam ship City of Seattle sailed for AlAskAN ports at 3 o clock yesterday afternoon carrying 100 passengers Those for Juneau are D B Close and wife Grover Desmond and wife M J Luby William Mulligan Charles Moriarty John P Gaum Miss Margaret McCormick Miss Pras Tony Garcia Arthur Proulx A T Perry John Peny J W Bixby W K E Parker Mrs George Johnson John and Peggy Johnson Miss M Kirkland Miss Mary McBride W Carburg Mrs C E Clark BL 9D Ferris and wife G Ferris J Ferris Gov Thomas Riggs Jr
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Seattle
Juneau
D. BE. Close
Grover Desmond
M. J. Luby
William Mulligan
Charles Moriarty
John P. Gaum
Margaret McCormick
Pras
Tony Garcia
Arthur Proulx
A. T. Perry
John Peny
J. W. Bixby
W. KE. Parker
George
Tramway Company Refuses To Dismiss Strikebreakers
DENVER August 24 The Denver Tramway Company refused to dismiss 600 men kept on after the strike of union trainmen to allow returning strikers to resume work. The striking carmen had voted to destroy their reemployment applications but yesterday indicated willingness to return on the company forms if strikebreakers were discharged.
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Denver
Denver Tramway Company
Carmen
Deported Secret Service Agent Refused U. S. Entry
JUAREZ Mexico August 24 Dr Paul Pf Altendorf a former United States Secret Service agent in Mexico who was ordered deported as a pernicious foreigner after criticizing Provisional Government officials remained on Mexican soil last night because U S authorities would not permit entry without proof of American citizenship.
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Juarez
Mexico
Paul Pf. Altendorf
United States
Secret Service
Provisional
Interurban Car Hits Auto Near Edgewood Killing Two
Two killed and three badly injured when a Seattle-Tacoma interurban car struck an automobile carrying five near Edgewood, twelve miles south of Seattle, late yesterday in Seattle, Washington.
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Seattle
Wash
Seattle - Tacoma
Edgewood
Alaska Flyers Arrive At Nome After 4500 Mile Trip
The Alaska Flying Squadron of four army airplanes finished a 4500 mile trek from New York, landing in Nome at 5 30 pm after 55 hours of actual flight. Capt St Clair Street led the squadron, with plans to start the return leg before week’s end. The Aero Club of America hailed the feat as epoch making and urged airmail routes to Nome and Alaska.
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Nome
Alaska
New York
Ruby
St. Clair Street
Alaska Flying Squadron
Aero Club of America
Augustus Post
Club
Toledo Fire and Explosion Exacts Heavy Toll of Life
Toledo Ohio reports a deadly fire and explosion at the Toledo Seed and Oil Company plant. Two men are dead and a milker among others hospital burned as fire crews battle the blaze. New York dispatch notes eight injured in a separate five story tenement fire on the East Side, with twenty families saved from flames.
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Toledo
Ohio
Toledo Seed and Oil Company
New York
Count Munster Dismissed For Criticising Superior
BERLIN Aug 24 Count Munster former first equerry to the King of Saxony and later an official in the republican agriculture ministry has been summarily dismissed. The government says he publicly accused Herr Schwarz the minister of agriculture of knowing nothing about agriculture, shortly after Schwarz’s rise from metal turner.
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Berlin
Count Munster
Saxony
Herr Schwarz
Alaska Census Estimates From Lopp Seem Incomplete
Seattle reports W T Lopp chief of the Alaska division of the Federal Bureau of Education released unofficial counts placing Alaska’s total population under 57 000. White residents estimated at 30 000 to 35 000 with many others as natives or mixed. Interior towns show Fairbanks 1158 Nenana 820 Tanana 212 Fort Yukon 319 Nulato 258, with declines from 1910 expected to reflect mining camp departures and new settlements. Official figures to be issued soon.
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Alaska
W. T. Lopp
Federal Bureau of Education
Lopp
Fairbanks
Nenana
Tanina
Fort Yukon
Nulato
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Tanana
Yukon
Arctic
Kotzebue Sound
Mr. Lopp
Boy Scout Movement in Mexico Revived Across Nation
In Mexico City, August 24, the Boy Scout movement is being revived with a call for youths aged 12 to 17 to enroll. The Corps of Mexican Explorers formerly received government support including uniforms shoes and a small allowance. The movement waned during the revolution and is being reenergized to follow previous paths.
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Mexico City
Boy Scout Movement
Mexico
Boy Scouts
Corps of Mexican Explorers
Profiteering in Coal to Be Investigated
Washington August 24 Attorney General Palmer ordered United States Attorneys to probe alleged coal dealer conspiracies to raise prices. Federal agents report dealers markups on repeated resales while avoiding direct profiteering. Chicago August 24 Hart Schaffner and Marx officials and employees are to testify before the Federal Grand Jury on high cost of living to determine if retailers profiteered.
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Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
United States
Chicago
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Germany circling paper money in circulation hits new level
Berlin reports 63,847,000,000 marks in circulation as of July 15, down 198,000,000 from the prior week. Reichstag director Von Glasenapp says inflation must be checked and urges work and thrift as the paths to improvement for Germany's currency situation.
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Berlin
Germany
von Glasenapp
Reichstag
Associated Press
Expulsion of Foreigners Forbidden in Argentina
Buenos Aires August 24 The Argentine Federation of Labor led by Socialist deputies won a lower house victory by amending the residence law to bar expulsion without a court hearing. The reform requires a federal judge to decide on deportation after a trial, addressing claims police used the law to remove foreign laborers who joined strikes as anarchists. It is expected the Senate will approve the measure.
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Buenos Aires
Argentine Federation of Labor
Congress
Senate
U. S. Ships Delayed at Buenos Aires by Strike
American vessels in the River Plate trade face losses as port workers refuse to handle wool and hides in sympathy with wool and hide market strikers. The long strike halts movement of these returns, diverting ships and driving charter prices higher, with several ships delayed by time and cargo losses.
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Buenos Aires
River Plate
Poles encircle Soviet forces near Warsaw fortress
The War Office announced the capture of Przasnysz fortress and Mlava on the Polish frontier as the Fourth Army and Third Cavalry Corps are encircled. Bolshevik counterattacks fail. Poles claim 63,000 prisoners, 200 guns, and 1,000 machine guns captured to date amid a pivotal Narew front battle.
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Warsaw
Prsasynsz
Mlawa
War Office
Bothgrartodaive
Seven thousand Soviet soldiers disarmed in East Prussia
Seven thousand Russian Soviet soldiers who crossed the German frontier near Willenberg East Prussia to escape Polish forces have been disarmed and interned.
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Koenigsburg
East
Prissia
Willenberg
East Prussia
Poles Recapture Bialystok From Bolsheviks
Dispatch from Warsaw reports Polish forces recaptured Bialystok northeast of Warsaw after a desperate resistance by Russian Bolsheviks, confirming a shift in control amid ongoing fighting in the region.
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Copenhagen
Bialystok
Warsaw
Poland’s troops assured not to push beyond frontiers
In Washington on August 24 Polish officials pledged that Poland’s victorious armies will not pursue their advance against the Russian Bolsheviks beyond the natural frontiers of the reconstituted republic. The assurances were communicated in Polish official circles in the capital today.
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Washington
United States
Poland
British Italian Premiers In Accord On Poland Peace
In Lucerne on Aug 24 Premier Lloyd George and Italy’s Giovanni Giolitti affirmed the urgent aim of restoring world peace at the earliest moment. They said the first guarantee lies in already concluded treaties. Paris noted the French Foreign Office linked their stance to the American note to Italy regarding Poland and its access to zones and communications under Versailles terms.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
David Lloyd George
England
Giovani Glenlitti
Italy
Paris
Poland
U S Unable to Relieve Citizens Held at Moscow
HELLINGFORS Aug 24 American authorities say nothing can be done to free Americans stranded in Moscow under the Bolsheviki regime. An escape would likely worsen the hardships and tyranny faced by the captives.
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U. S
Moscow
Hellingfors
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